mental health

When you have small children or live overseas or live overseas in a hotel for 5 weeks before you fly 28 hours around the world with the small children or are preparing for some kind of enormous life transition, sometimes (you know, hardly worth mentioning) you might...

holding onto too much

I find I am forever juggling one too many objects at any given time in my day. Cell phone, car keys, base ID, purse, beverage (always, always a beverage), some toy-of-the-hour that each kid must have before leaving the house. Something hanging from every finger....

making amends

I posted the following on FB and Twitter the other day: “Sometimes the person we most need to make amends with is ourselves.” This is a concept I’ve been wrestling with since Luke and Lane were born. Those early days of motherhood acquainted me with my own limits in a...

in this house

This post marks my last few hours in this house. Movers are finishing up. I’m walking the halls. So many significant things have happened here: Luke and Lane turned 3 and then 4 in this house. We welcomed baby Elle in this house. We have enjoyed the company of...

“Two Seas”

As I sit at our table and watch the movers pack us up to return to San Diego, I’m reminded of the post I wrote right before we came here in 2011. I’m thinking back to that time of impending transition even as I’m lurching forward into another...